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Suggestions for 6 meter Antenna

The thing about 6 meters, when it is open you can stick a coat hangar in the SO-239 port and work DX. But it is not open all the time.

The Moxon described above is easy to make. I velcroed one to the top of my pick up shell. Not an exact fit but it worked good enough to make a lot of DX contacts.

If you got basic hand tools make a beam. I built the one in the link below. Works like a champ. I've since used the gamma match design and built a 6 ele for the base, and a 4 ele for rover. I used element lengths and spacing from another website. If I can find it I'll post it too.

And if you want to go digital, 6 meters is open ever week end with all the ping jockeys. I get tired of talking about the weather.

http://members.aol.com/n2kbk/6m.html

http://www.ve3sqb.com/
 
Moleculo said:
Skeeterman, Happy_Hamer builds a nice little 6 meter horizontal loop that would also work pretty well. Nothing like supporting a forum member ;)
Hammer, You have PM
 


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  • @ Geoexplorer69:
    Coax question. I just put up a new Sirio monsoon base antenna with 100’ of rg8u coax testing with myMFJ antenna analyzer shows 1.4 swr at 26.965mhz and a 1.1 at 27.405 mhz . When I checked the ohms it’s steady a 30 ohms across the entire bandwidth.
  • @ Geoexplorer69:
    Is 30 ohms worth worrying about in a 100’ run of rg8u ?


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